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Scottish and UK governments locked in dispute over £26m cost of Trump and Vance visits
The Scottish and UK governments are locked in a dispute over who should foot the £26m bill for Donald Trump and JD Vance's recent visits to Scotland.
The US president spent four days visiting his golf courses in Ayrshire and Aberdeenshire in July, while the vice president spent around four days in Ayrshire the following month. In a letter to Chief Secretary to the Treasury James Murray, Scotland's Finance Secretary Shona Robison said the visits imposed "substantial operational and financial burdens on Scottish public services, particularly Police Scotland".
Ms Robison said the estimated additional cost of policing the presidential visit alone was around £20m, reflecting peak daily deployments of more than 4,000 officers, while the cost for the vice president's trip was around £6m. According to provisional figures published by the Scottish government later on Wednesday, the two visits cost around £24.5m - with Police Scotland's bill totalling around £24.1m.
The SNP MSP said while both occasions were framed as private visits, they were "diplomatically significant". She wrote: "Following your decision not to provide funding to Scotland for costs incurred in relation to the visit of President Donald Trump to Scotland in July 2025 and the subsequent visit of Vice President JD Vance, I am writing to you to request that you reconsider this decision and provide full reimbursement for the cost of the visits." The UK government said the visits were private and "not official UK government business.
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